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I try to be more witty than I really am, and I traded in my study of English and Writing for Interdisciplinary Studies so I could graduate in December 2009. I went to college so I could be a stay-at-home mom, which most people think is nutty. Chris and I think it is both Biblical and brilliant.

I grew up an Army brat, but my life in the south has allowed me to claim the "Southerner" title and a palette for sweet tea. (And not to mention a few bursts of a more-than-southern accent.)

I met Chris in November 2006, and engagement came five months later. Our engagement lasted 14 months, and I married my best friend on August 9, 2008. I strive to be a Proverbs 31 wife for my husband, and even though I fail, I know that the LORD's mercies are new every morning.

Our precious son was born on May 4, 2010, but we were parents long before then. We are eternally grateful for our healthy and handsome baby boy and will raise him according to Deuteronomy 6. I look forward to being a nursing, cloth-diapering, baby-food-making (eventually) stay-at-home mama. 

Chris joined the Air Force May 25, 2010 and I officially became a military wife - I never expected to marry into the military after being raised in it my entire life. But it's been one heckuv-an adventure so far, and I am thrilled to see where God leads our family as my husband serves our country in His honor.

We found out we were pregnant again on January 15, 2011, and are expecting our sweet baby girl around September 24. We're so blessed to already have one precious and loving child, and are humbled that the Lord saw fit to grow our family again, and with a little girl. We are ever grateful for His blessings in our lives and family.

I have the most incredible husband, most precious son, am expecting a sweet baby girl, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

-Brittney

Abridgments are difficult for me, specifically because I am long-winded. So, here goes...

I spent the entirety of my youth amongst the fields, bottoms, woodlands, creeks, and gravel roads surrounding my family's home in an obscure county. The land was mature with many hardwood trees including my favorite, the paper birch. As a child, those trees were to me as the Roman Coliseum, or the Greek Acropolis. I would tarry for hours encompassed by their arduous height. I can somewhat identify with the words of the disciples of Jesus in the Gospel of Mark, who when walking in Jerusalem marveling at the many ornate structures said, "Teacher, behold what wonderful stones and what wonderful buildings!" This type of captivation dominated my early years, and I endure still with the odor of disced clay as my choice cologne. I was then and remain a man of sparseness.

I have not known the need of much in my short life, that is, physically. No dire need for nourishment has ever prevailed upon me; I know little of what it is to starve. Nakedness has never mocked me, nor once threatened to do so. I cannot boast of enduring perils upon my own body, not even once. My feet have trodden down the earth in prosperity; fruit trees have grown out from my prints, indeed an orchard is my furrow. I was given to walk in leisure from the days of my youth, to take in, to consume. None have bore the sword upon me, famine has never choked my lands, distress nor tribulation have known my company, and persecution does not share my citizenship. I can not boast of any high or unique way of scholarship over and against my neighbors, I do not possess a sharper pen or intellect. Menial is my labor and meager my purse. I know not the weight of age, yet in all of my youth I am old.

I love my wife more than anything, except of course Jesus Christ my Lord.

Thus says the LORD, "Let not a wise man boast of his wisdom, and let not the mighty man boast of his might, let not a rich man boast of his riches; but let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD who exercises lovingkindness, justice and righteousness on earth; for I delight in these things," declares the LORD. Jeremiah 9:23-24 NASB.

-Christopher

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